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Before this week's historic milestone, Parker had flown straight through the sun's corona, the outer atmosphere visible during a total solar eclipse.
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CBS News, 27 Dec. 2024
The aurorae The sun’s corona was also responsible for another, very different spectacle a month later, when a series of powerful flares blasted some of the gases that make up the corona away from the sun.
—Tom Hawking, Popular Science, 26 Dec. 2024
The corona is the cauldron where coronal mass ejections lick into existence, but it can’t be seen from Earth except for during a total solar eclipse.
—Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Dec. 2024
Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the Solar cycle,
Not a sunspot was stirring, not even a burst;
The stockings were all hung by the corona with care,
In hopes that the Parker Solar Probe would soon be there.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 19 Dec. 2024
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CBS News, 27 Dec. 2024
The aurorae The sun’s corona was also responsible for another, very different spectacle a month later, when a series of powerful flares blasted some of the gases that make up the corona away from the sun.
—Tom Hawking, Popular Science, 26 Dec. 2024
The corona is the cauldron where coronal mass ejections lick into existence, but it can’t be seen from Earth except for during a total solar eclipse.
—Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Dec. 2024
Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the Solar cycle,
Not a sunspot was stirring, not even a burst;
The stockings were all hung by the corona with care,
In hopes that the Parker Solar Probe would soon be there.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 19 Dec. 2024
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“Corona.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/corona. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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